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Friday, November 30, 2012

Some of them are easy to catch, some are not. Some are easy to verify, some are not, most of them broadcast regularly, but a few of them not. One thing thatunites them is that I haven't sent them detailed reception reports. End justifies the means and that's why I will useall means to verify them - detailed reception reports, pictures of my equipment, sending postcards and of course return postage. But it's high time to QSL them all.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

THE VOICE OF RUSSIA RADIO, ONE OF THE LARGEST AND OLDEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE BROADCASTERS IN THE WORLD, HAS ONCE AGAIN EXPERIENCED ATTACKS COMING FROM EUROPE. THIS TIME IT WAS GERMANY’S STATE-RUN DEUTSCHE WELLE RADIO THAT ACCUSED THE VOICE OF RUSSIA OF MAKING ROMANIA A “BANANA REPUBLIC” AND DISINTEGRATING THE BASICS OF A LEGAL STATE IN THE COUNTRY, AS WELL AS ATTEMPTING TO DISTANCE ROMANIA FROM BERLIN AND BRUSSELS.

The German radio claims that the Voice of Russia is manipulating Romanian MPs and is turning the country into a Russian colony. The Russian broadcaster is also accused of masterminding a strategy to affect the Romanian parliament to change the country’s Constitution “in line with the Voice of Russia wishes”.
Earlier, Romania’s’ President Traian Basescu stated that the country’s opposition, media and analysts are carrying out orders transmitted via the Voice of Russia instead of listening to the Western media.

DW accusations are another link in a series of attacks on the Russian radio which broadcasts on air and online in 37 languages. According to the Voice of Russia it has recently suffered a series of attacks –beginning from diplomatic and administrative pressure to hacking attacks on its partners’ sites in Europe.
The Voice of Russia has forwarded a letter to DW offering a thorough discussion on the matter to exchange opinions and information.

Earlier, Romanian President was given an opportunity to speak out on the VoR air and website.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Last weekend (16th to 18th November) I took part in Rallye DX competition. I didn't have a lot time to listen, but I logged some stations. Equipment used: Sony ICF-7600 with longwire aerial: Here is the full report:

FRIDAY (16/11/2012):

1. (1200-1230) 7245 kHz - 55545 - Voice of Turkey - Bulgarian

- 1200: News - large coverage on the situation in Bank Gaza and the Israeli attacks. The position of Turkey about the conflict. A penalty for British Petrolium for the oil stain in the Mexican bay. Turkey - the first counry with its own design of military tank. The tourists developments in Turkey.

- 1230 - News bulletin - large coverage on international news. The main topic was the Israeli attacks in Gaza. The news bulletin was followed by a roundtable discussion show.

5. (1230-1300) - BSKSA Quran - Arabic - 15380 - 44544

- 1230: Quran chants

- 1245: Quran reading

- 1255: Quran songs

- 1300: News bulletin

6. (1300-1330) - Voice of Greece - Greek - 9420 - 54554

* Interference from China National Radio 13, broadcasting in Uyghur language until 1800UTC.

- 1258: Start of the program with interval signal

- 1300: Time signal

- 1301: Program in Greek with news and other features and traditional Sirtaki music.

7. (1600-1630) - Radio Taiwan International - English - 15485 - 55555

- 1600: News bulletin. Main topics: Taiwan is working on attracting new tallents to come to work in the country. Creating a system for new inventions and standards in Taiwan - a new challenge for the country. Market news. Weather forecast.

- Discussion on what is to be an independent person and to do everything on your own without the help of parents and friends. As long as you have a good idea about what do you want, you shouldn't care about what others think about it, but it's hard to be financially independent after graduating without the help of your parents.

- 21575 - 45534 - very good signal with some fading, otherwise very good signal.

1030: Quran preaching

1035: News bulletin

- The Israeli attacks in Gaza and the position of the Middle Eastern countries about it. The Egypt president said the Israeli attacks are aggression against humanity.

15. (1100-1130) Radio Romania International - French - 15150 - 45444

1100: Interval signal

1101: News bulletin with coverage on the events in Romania and around the world. Mentioned were Trayan Basescu, China and the Israeli attacks in Gaza.

1105: News about Romania and the European commission.

1100: Cultural program

1116: Music

16. (1115-1245) All India Radio - General Overseas Service in English - 15410 - 45444

- 1215 - Sign on with the All India Radio interval signal

- 1216 - Opening announcement. Frequency schedule was given.

- 1217 - Hindi music

- 1220 - News bulletin, read by female announcer

- 1230 - More vernacular music

17. (1130 - 1200) BBC World Service - English - 15575 - 55555

- 1120: A story of the Vietnamese musicians during the Vietnam war

- 1129: BBC promos and program announcements

- 1130: BBC news. Coverage on the 4th day of the Israeli attacks in Gaza. The Syrian rebels to meet with the French president. The president elections in Siera Leone.

- 1133: A story of a Jewish girl, who wrote her own diary during the World War Two in which he tells about the hard times the Jews lived in and that they had very few rights. They even weren't allowed to use the public transport and to go out of the town.

18. (1600-1630) Radio Rossii - Russian - 5905 - 55555

- 1600: News bulletin

- 1605: Sport headlines

- 1609: Weather forecast

- 1610: Radio Rossii jingle and announcement

- 1612: "Culturniy Bagazh" - a program of cultural and art news from all over Russia

- 1630: Classical music

19. (1628-1658) - Trans World Radio - Romanian - 6105 - 55545

- 1658: Trans World Radio interval signal

- 1630: Gospel music

- 1631: Christian sermon of a male preacher on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

20. (1630-1645) The Overcomer Ministry - English - 11900 - 35533

- An Evangelical Christian message from Brother Stair of the Overcomer Ministry.

- 1700: Large news and commentary program with discussion about the political scene in Georgia. Interview of a Georgian political scientist.

- 1720: Diabetes - way to prevent - an interview with endocrinologists from a Georgian clinic.

- 1730: Information and analysis program

23. (1730-1800) Radio Exterior De Espana - Spanish - 7275 - 52552

interference from KBS World Radio in Korean for Europe, China Radio International in Chinese for Europe and PBS Xinjiang in Uighur for Western China.

News and talk program, followed by sports program with a live coverage on the "La Liga" matches.

24. (1815-1830) Voice of Vietnam - English - 5955 - 55544

- 1815: Weekend music show of a traditional Vietnamese music.

- 1824: The announcer explained about the purpose of the song and that it brings different emotions in different people.

- 1825: Another song.

- 1829: Signed off

25. (1900-1930) - HSK9 Radio Thailand - English - 9585 - 45433

good signal with some fading which sometimes was making the program content inaudible. Otherwise no interference and noises.

- 1900: News bulletin. The main topic: An emergency exit to be built in the parliament building in Bangkok.

- 1912: "You're listening to Radio Thailand news"

- 1913: Program promos

- 1915: "Radio Thailand news"

- 1916: Global news, provided by "Air Asia". News items about the Chinese communist party elections and the Israeli attacks in the Palestine territories. The recession in Spain. France to send deffensive weapons to the Syrian rebels. Myanmar president to meet Barak Obama during his tour in Asia. Some parts of New York are still strugling to recover from the Sandy huricane.

- 1925: Program promos

- 1930: "Special report", followed by more news on the "Morning news hour".

26. (1930-1945; 2100-2130) All India Radio - General Overseas Service in English - 7550 - 55555

- 1930: Hindi music

- 1945: Frequency schedule was given.

- 1945: Start of the French language program

- 2100: News bulletin

- 2110: Hindi instrumental music

- 2130: Comments by a male announcer

- 2132: More music and a commentary about singing.

27. (2000-2030) - TRT Voice of Turkey - English - 6050 - 54554

- 2000: Turkish pop and traditional music

- 2020: News headlines

- 2012: Contact information was given.

- 2025: TRT Interval signal

28. (2200-2230) Exterior De Espana - English - 6125 - 55544

- Listeners' club program with letters of listeners from all over the world: Mike Coady from the United States, Wolfgang from Austria.

- Music

29. KBS World Radio - English - 3955 - 55555

- "Worldwide Friendship" program with listeners' letters from all over the world, including mine and of listeners from India and United Sates. Reading the messages from the online message board of KBS World Radio.

- The broadcast featured a program of roundatable politic discussion show.

40. (1200-1230) TRT Voice of Turkey - Bulgarian - 7245 - 55555

- 1200: The program featured a news bulletin and press review with a large coverage of the situatiin in the Palestine territories. The Turkey position about the conflict. Barak Obama says Israel has its right to defend. A Morocco delegation to come to Gaza. Anti-Israel protests in the Middle East and around the world.

- 1212: "Memoirs of Attaturk" - a historical program

41. (1200-1230) Radio Habana Cuba - Spanish

- 17730 - 33533

- 17580 - 35533

- 15230 - 54444

- 1200: Sign on with the interval signal of Rado Habana Cuba.

- 1201: News bulletin, followed by other Spanish language programming.

- 1230: "Eternal Good News" program of George Bryan, speaking about the Kingdom of God and the influence of the Word of God - it may change everyone's life. Contact information was given at 1242, followed by gospel music and WHRI announcement at 1244.

On 24th of November, DeLuxe FM radio show on Ems-Vechte-Welle FM-radio, which was launched on 28th Novmber 1997 on that radio station, will celebrate its 15th anniversary on air ! :-)
And forget the perfect worldwide internet live stream:
Let's return to the good old radio roots with static noise and fading - this special show will be on air on RADIO 700's short wave frequencies beside regular FM-bradcast on Ems-Vechte-Welle FM-radio:

Up to 20.000 Watt are fired into atmosphere and depending on propagation and atmospheric condition, worlwide terrestrial reception should be possible with world receivers and SW-supporting car radios. Buy a world receiver or take grandpa's good old SW-supportimg tube radio from the attic ! :-)
If you can't catch any terrestrial signal in your part of world, you can use ordinary internet stream in mp3-quality between 19:03 - 20:00h GMT-time (Germany: 20:03-21:00h).
In case you receive any signal, you should make a video and link it on following radio page:

Thursday, November 15, 2012

A rather strange way to learn that LRA36 has resumed broadcasts today has just happened:

Mirta, co-announcer of R Arcángel San Gabriel, during the 2012 Antarctic Campaign has just commented in a post of my blog "La Galena del Sur" featuring the station on Aug. 2012, that they are on the air from today on.

This is the message posted as a comment that I am roughly translating from Spanish:

"My name is Mirta and I share the studio, during this year 2012 at Base Esperanza station, with two more partners and the technical operator and we are very excited because today we returned to convey to everyone after the repair of equipment. We are proud to share this news with everyone!"

It has been announced that the World DX Club (WDXC) is to close, a
final issue of Contact magazine is to be published in December.For 44
years the club have published their newsletter Contact magazine every
month, containing station logs, news, information and comment about
radio and radio broadcasts, both current and historical, primarily,
but not exclusively, international shortwave radio.Regretfully due to
health reasons Arthur and Olive Ward have had to step down from their
club duties in charge of membership subscriptions, dispatch of
bulletins as well as many contributions to the content of Contact over
the years. Arthur became club printer in July 1974 and added his
secretarial role in December 1979.This leaves the club with too few
voluntary staff for the work involved and it has been decided to cease
publication of Contact. It is understood that outstanding
subscriptions are to be transferred to the British DX Club for UK and
overseas members outside of North America and to the North American
Shortwave Association for North American members.

According to this article (see clipping below) the CRTC “mistakenly” listed the end date of RCI Sackville’s (call sign CKCX-SW) shortwave service to North Quebec as November 1, 2012. The CRTC has now amended the decision with an end date of December 1st, 2012.

Thanks to Kim Elliott for bringing this to my attention.

(Source: All Access Music Group)
The official revocation of the license of the CBC’s shortwave CKCX-SW/SACKVILLE, NB has been amended to DECEMBER 1st. In an initial ruling on the requested revocation, the CRTC mistakenly listed the end date as NOVEMBER 1st. The station is being shut down because of the grant of low-power repeaters for CBC RADIO ONE station CFFB/IQUALUIT, NUNAVUT at PURVIRNITUQ, KUUJJUARAPIK, INUKJUAK, SALLUIT, and KUUJJUAQ, NUNAVIT, all on 103.5 FM with 50 watts each.

Have you singed our petition to save Sackville from being dismantled? Now would be the perfect time: